I’ve previously written about the experiences of Heinz Otto Schild FRS, another refugee scientist who was interned on the Isle of Man. However, in 1940 the British Government detained Gold along with thousands of other German and Austrian nationals, because of fears that Nazi spies were operating in the country. Gold became interested in engineering and began pursuing a mechanical sciences degree at Trinity College Cambridge. His father was Jewish, and so his family fled to England in the 1930s to escape the threat posed by Hitler’s rise to power. It’s also closely connected to the scientist Thomas Gold FRS, whose papers we hold in the archives here at the Royal Society.Īerial view of the Arecibo Observatory, courtesy of the Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the NSF ( ) The observatory has appeared in several films, notably serving as the location for the final showdown in James Bond’s 1995 outing Goldeneye. You may have heard of the Arecibo Observatory, constructed in the early 1960s and centred on a 300m-wide reflector telescope dish in the mountains of Puerto Rico.Įven if the name doesn’t ring a bell, there’s a good chance you’d recognise it. This includes important collections of personal papers donated by twentieth century Fellows, and the modern archives of the Society itself.
MOVIES ARECIBO TELESCOPE HAS BEEN IN ARCHIVE
Jon Bushell is the Royal Society’s Modern Records Archivist, responsible for managing the Society’s archive collection from 1900 to the present day.
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